Miriam was an ambitious business journalist in Boston. Until she was fired – then discovered, to her shock, that her disreputable lost family comes from an alternate reality. And some of them are trying to kill her, previously presumed dead, for being heir to a fortune. But she won’t stop digging. Now she knows she’s inherited the family ability to walk between worlds, there’s a new culture to explore.
Her alternate home seems located around the Middle Ages, making her world-hopping relatives top dogs when it comes to `importing’ guns and other gadgets from modern-day America. Payment flows from services to US drug rings – after all, world-skipping drug runners make effective traffickers. In a land where women are property, she attempts to remain independent and start a legitimate business. But her her outsider ways won’t be tolerated, and a highly political arranged marriage is being brokered behind her back. If she can stay alive for long enough to protest.
`This series is great and getting better all the time’ S.M. Stirling
`Fast-paced and engrossing and will leave readers ravenous for the next instalment’ SciFi.com
`This cliffhanger-riddled serial remains difficult to top’ Publishers Weekly
- ISBN10 0230770576
- ISBN13 9780230770577
- Publish Date 9 May 2013
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 19 January 2022
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Pan Macmillan
- Imprint Tor
- Format eBook (EPUB)
- Language English